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The name for the point where a probability changes

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12-27-2004 8:30 AM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Syamsu
12-27-2004 3:21 AM

Re: not necessarily
Do any of you really believe in day to day life, that probabilities don't change ...
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Absolutely they don't change. Our knowledge of the situation may change, our best estimate of what the probability is may change, but the probabilities themselves only change when the event being assessed either occurs or fails to occur, in which case the probability changes to one or zero respectively. In QM this is called "collapse of the wave function".
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